AP Government & Politics with Honors Civics/Economics



INTRODUCTION

Welcome to AP Government and Politics with Honors Civics and Economics. A plan, similar to the one below, will be available for each unit that we study throughout the year. With that said, this is the only hard copy that you will receive. All future unit plans are available via the class website and should be printed by the student for the first day of each unit. Each plan will also include unit objectives.

UNIT OBJECTIVES

1. Trace the origins of the American Government.

2. Explain the functions of American Government.

3. Analyze the changing characteristics of the American public.

4. Characterize changes in American’s attitudes toward and expectations of government.

5. Explain what is meant by power in general human terms and by political power in particular, relating the latter to authority, legitimacy, and democracy in the context of American government.

6. Distinguish among the three concepts of democracy.

7. Identify the causes of the American Revolution and the ideals on which the United States are based.

8. Identify the components of the Articles of Confederation and the reasons for their failure.

9. Discuss the Declaration of Independence as a lawyer's brief prepared for court argument.

10. Compare what the colonists believed was a legitimate basis for government with what monarchies--such as that in Great Britain --believed was a legitimate basis for government.

Monday, August 28

Discussion: Course Overview & Description, Being an AP Student: Reading/Writing

Current Events Discussion

Homework: (1) Review the vocabulary from the summer assignment

(2) Read the article “Authority and Legitimacy” at the following link: Questions will be made available via the class website.

Tuesday, August 29

Discussion: Proper Role of Government – Duties, Rights, Responsibilities

Homework: Complete “Proper Role of Government”

Wednesday, August 30

Discussion: The Proper Role of Government – Issues to Debate

Homework: Read/take notes on one of the following assigned readings:

1. C. Wright Mills (from The Power Elite)

2. Robert Dahl (from Who Governs?)

3. Michael Parenti (from Democracy for the Few)

4. Benjamin Barber (from Strong Democracy)

5. Bernard Crick (from In Defense of Politics)

Thursday, August 31

Discussion: Democracy and Citizenship (Democracy Readings Jigsaw)

Homework: Chapter 1, 7-12

Friday, September 1

Discussion: Immigration and Naturalization

Homework: Complete “Citizenship Test”

Monday, September 4

NO SCHOOL – LABOR DAY

Tuesday, September 5

Discussion: Immigration and Naturalization

Homework: Read and take notes on the following links from the Digital History online textbook below:

• “Regional Contrasts”

• “Diversity in Colonial America”

• “Slavery in the Colonial North”

• “Slave Revolts”

• “Life in Early Virginia”

• “Dimensions of Change in Colonial New England”

• “Middle Colonies: New York”

• “Middle Colonies: William Penn’s Holy Experiment”

• “The Southernmost Colonies: The Carolinas and Georgia”

The online textbook for these readings can be found at this link:

Wednesday, September 6

Discussion: 13 Colonies

Homework: Chapter 1, p. 2-4 and Chapter 2, p. 15-18

Thursday, September 7

Discussion: A Colonial Identity: Labor, Conflict, & A Changing Attitude

Homework: Watch the Ted Talk Revolution: A Success Story by Ray Raphael at the following link: ) and read/take notes on the following links from the Digital History online

textbook below:

• “Why did the American Revolution take place?”

• “The Road to Revolution”

• “Why did the colonists rebel and the British resist”

The online textbook for these readings can be found at this link:

Friday, September 8

Discussion: Road to Revolution, Part I: “No Taxation w/o Representation”

Events Leading to the American Revolution

Homework: Chapter 2, 18-20 and complete the Declaration of Independence Assignent

Monday, September 11

Discussion: Road to Revolution, Part II: Common Sense?

Homework: Complete a city analysis of Boston, Trenton, Saratoga, Philadelphia, and/or

Yorktown using: ) and do the Road to Revolution Game using: .

More information will be distributed during class.

Tuesday, September 12

Video: John Adams, Episode 1: “Join or Die”

Discussion: The American Revolution

Homework: Chapter 2, 21-23 and watch 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Shays Rebellion at . (Note: this video is approximately 45 minutes). Questions will be made available.

Wednesday, September 13

Discussion: Problems with Independence/Government in Transition

Homework: Study for exam (consider completing the review guide)

Thursday, September 14

Discussion: Finish Unit 1 Material

Review for test

Homework: Study for exam (consider completing the review guide)

Friday, September 15

TEST: UNIT 1 – American Democracy

REVIEW GUIDE

Note to student: The following information should serve as a study guide for the first unit. Please note that this guide may not be all-inclusive; in other words, information from your reading or class discussions may not appear on the guide but might be on the test. As such, this should be used as a guide for studying. Correct completion of this guide could earn you up to two extra credit points for “each” (AP and Honors respectively) test.

Directions: Students should explain the significance of each vocabulary column below. Students should also complete twenty of the short answer questions. Responses can be bullet-pointed as long as they offer enough development to satisfy the instructor. Review Guides are due the day of the test.

Terms & Concepts

“No Taxation without Rep”

1st Continental Congress

Albany Plan of Union

Alien

American Dream

Anarchy

Apathy

Authority

Citizenship

Civic Engagement

Colonial Economies

Committees of Correspondence

Common Sense

Communist Democracy

Conservative

Confederation

Constitution

Declaration of Independence

Declaratory Act

Democracy

Democrats

Deportation

Dictatorship

Diplomacy

Direct democracy

Discrimination

Diversity

Draft

Duty

Economics

Electorate

Enlightenment

Equality

Faction

Framers

Freedom

French and Indian War

Fundamental Orders of CT

George Washington

Globalization

Government

House of Burgesses

Human Rights

Ideology

Immigrant

Indentured Servitude

Individualism

Intolerable (Coercive) Acts

James Oglethorpe

Jamestown

John Adams

John Hancock

John Locke

John Winthrop

Karl Marx

King George III

Laissez-faire

Legislature

Legitimacy

Liberal

Majority/Majority Rule

Maryland Toleration Act

Mayflower Compact

Mercantilism

Monarchy

Native Americans

Naturalization

Oligarchy

Patriotism

Patriots

Pluralism

Pluralist Democracy

Political Culture

Political Party

Politics

Popular Consent

Popular Sovereignty

Power

Proclamation Line of 1763

Public Policy

Puritans

Quartering Act

Racial Profiling Representative democracy

Refugees

Religious Dissenter

Republic

Republicans

Resources

Responsibility

Rights

Road to the Revolution

Roanoke Colony/Lost Colony

Roger Williams

Salutary Neglect

Samuel Adams

Security

Segregation

Slavery

Social Contract Theory

Social Democracy

Social Order

Socialism

Sons of Liberty

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Subjects vs. Citizens

Suffrage

Superpower

Taxes

Terrorism

The American Revolution

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Paine

Tobacco/Cash Crops

Tolerance

Tories/Loyalists

Totalitarianism

Treaty of Paris

Volunteerism

Short Answer Questions

1. Who governs? Why is this a complicated question to answer?

2. What is the relationship between a citizen and government?

3. What are five duties and the five responsibilities that American citizens have?

4. What happens when a person’s civic and personal responsibilities come into conflict?

5. What is the debate regarding the role of government in citizen’s lives

6. What is the process to become a citizen?

7. What are the characteristics of a good citizen?

8. What are strengths and weaknesses to a representative democracy? a direct democracy?

9. What explains political change?

10. What values matter in American democracy?

11. How is political power actually distributed in America?

12. How did 9/11 change the world we live in?

13. How did geography impact colonial development in America?

14. How did self-government evolve in the colonies?

15. How did the colonists respond to the end of salutary neglect?

16. Was the War for Independence inevitable? Explain.

17. What factors prevented all colonists from supporting the Revolution?

18. How did the experiences of the colonial era shape the formation of an American identity?

19. How were the colonists able to win the Revolution?

20. What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

21. Describe Madison’s view of citizenship.

22. Describe the two competing views of American citizenship today in this country.

23. Describe how U.S. immigration policy has evolved over time.

24. What were the goals and concerns of the American founders?

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